Twitter has been all atwitter today about the ISP filtering campaign in Australia. The Federal Government announced today that the pilot ISP filtering trials have concluded. The Government has considered them a great success and have announced more details of their plans to “improve safety online”. Rather than rehash all the details and responses to [...]

Colleagues, I have been here at the Realising our Broadband Future forum for the past two days and many of you have seen the twittering at #bbfuture. Places at this conference have been by invitation only and I have been pleased and proud to represent our profession and ALIA here – amongst the government, technical [...]

As an adjunct to the VALA 2010 Conference, a series of special ‘techie’ sessions is being run under the title of VALAtech Boot Camp. The five sessions will be run over 4 days and include: OCLC API Mashathon Video: Negotiating the Online and Mobile Space Semantic Web APIs Open Source Content Management Systems – Joomla! [...]

From the website: “On 28 September 2008, a group of 15 Australians gathered in Singapore. They came from Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. Most worked in public libraries. All were associated with public libraries in some way. Some were supported by their employers. Others came entirely at their own expense. Every one of them was [...]